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GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Sep 5

How can individuals foster enhanced research culture, and institutions embed it meaningfully?

Exploring this, GW4 Re-Culture is now open for applications!

This creative, skills-based programme explores how we can build a flourishing research culture across GW4 universities: buff.ly/zbS1QJP

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 7d

RECORDING: the recording of our recent webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors', organised with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency, is now available to view and share:

📺 youtu.be/vVf9GspOs8g?...

#OAbooks #OpenAccess @operaseu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors

YouTube video by Open Access Books Network

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks @iansample.bsky.social at @theguardian.com podcast for chatting #ScientificPublishing.

This pod follows from The Strain on Scientific Publishing & reports of publisher profit margins rivalling Google etc...

Paper: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken?

Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 02/10/2025 · 18m

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 7d

Interested in experimental book publishing?

Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project!

📆 4 October 2025
⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
📍 Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details 👉

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive…

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 16d

Sign up, sign up to this free webinar which takes place in one week's time! Hear from the authors and series editors of #OpenAccess books about their experiences 👇

Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 4

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors'

📆 Tuesday 30 September
⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST

Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p...

#OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

An event card showing the details of the event that are given in the post. It also says 'An OABN webinar with the support of the ERC Executive Agency'.

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Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social · Aug 11

Mohammed Alsudairi and I wrote a book on Sino-Middle Eastern relations!

Permanently in OpenAccess as part of @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org's Elements in Middle East Politics series.

🔗https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/narratives-of-sinomiddle-eastern-futures/9ED65BBD5309CF1D7943B0B604E5F8A5

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · Jul 1

🔊Registration is NOW OPEN for OpenFest 2025, the annual open research event led by Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam unis.

2nd-5th September - all welcome.

This year's theme is Open Research & Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - in all the meanings of those terms.

More details and registration:⬇️

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jun 25

Join @kjsanders.bsky.social and @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social later today to discuss 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿

FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OpenAccess after the event 📹

📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm (BST)
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hello ASAPbio Community! We would like to invite you to one of the upcoming Community Calls of 2025!

We will be discussing:
✨ OpenRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social
✨ Research Fraud
✨ Replacing Academic Journals
✨ Experiments in Publishing

Register for the Call 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Jun 4

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.

Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press

We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

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International Labour Review @ilr-rit.bsky.social · Apr 4

We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓

The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all.

No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨

Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen!

👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV

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Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social · Mar 31

Welcome!☀️

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GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Mar 31

Take part in today's event 'Creating An Open Culture: A Reflection on GW4’s UKRN Train-the-Trainer Programme', 13:15-14:15!

Speakers include:

David A. Ellis, @uniofbath.bsky.social
Lis Grey, @bristoluni.bsky.social
Katy Huxley, Cardiff University
Matt Lloyd Jones, @exeter.ac.uk

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Creating An Open Culture: A Reflection on GW4’s UKRN Train-the-Trainer Programme (online) - GW4

Monday, 31, March – 13:15-14:15 In 2023, GW4 colleagues from Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, and Exeter came together for several UKRN sponsored Train-the-Trainer sessions. Join some of these participants as ...

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GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Mar 31

GW4 Open Research Week 2025 is finally here! 🥳💡👏

Join us every day this week for a host of online sessions, celebrating and showcasing best practices in open research & open culture.

⏰ Open to all and there's still time to register! gw4.ac.uk/gw4orw25/

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Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social · Mar 27

There is still time to sign up for the GW4 Open Research week next week 31 Mar - 4 Apr, we are looking forward to lots of interesting discussions

gw4.ac.uk/gw4orw25/

GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Mar 19

Just under two weeks to go until the start of GW4 Open Research Week! Join for:

📖 Rights Retention & Open Publications
🔬 Reproducibility in Research
📊 Open Access & Global Social Challenges
🏆 GW4 Open Research Prize Awards

📅 31 Mar – 4 Apr | 🌍 Open to all
🔗 Register: gw4.ac.uk/gw4orw25/

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GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join us online for the GW4 Open Research Prize Awards on 2 April 2025! 🎓✨ Celebrate groundbreaking open research and hear from shortlisted entrants & leading academics, including keynote speaker Prof. Marcus Munafò.

📅 2 April 2025 | 12:30–3pm | Online
🔗 Register now: buff.ly/b2MN4f3

#OpenResearch

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Mar 17

What can open institutional publishing offer? How is it making a difference, and why does it matter?

📖 💬 From bibliodiversity to author care; LSE Press's @philippagrand.bsky.social & @suzannetatham.bsky.social explore the overdue comeback of institutional publishing for @timeshighered.bsky.social.

Six reasons why open institutional publishing matters

A new wave of institutional publishers is changing the way we think about academic publishing. Here’s why they’re worth watching

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social · Mar 17

#ExeterUni researchers 📢

We have a new institutional membership with Cogitatio Press, no charge to publish #OpenAccess in all 5 full #OA journals when you are corresponding author:

www.cogitatiopress.com/index/about/...

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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · Mar 11

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Mar 12

🥁 Reminder: Our next PCI webinar is on March 20, 2025, at 4 PM CET. Sabina Leonelli from the Technical University of Munich will discuss "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair." For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/49QXV0R

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Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social · Mar 7

Horizon Europe Open Science Requirements in Practice
@openaire.bsky.social webinar next week:

Friday 14 March 11am UK time

✅Learn the requirements for #OpenAccess and #RDM
✅Find out how to comply
✅OpenAIRE tools & Services
✅Ask questions

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Have any doubts or questions about your obligations as a Horizon Europe (HE) grant holder in terms of Open Access to publications and Research Data Management? We will present the HE requirements, fol...

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Mar 4

EVENT: 'Beyond Mandates: Fostering a Culture of Open Access Book Publishing'

Co-hosted by @knowledgeen.bsky.social & Copim

Thurs 6 March @ 12:30 GMT

"A more effective and lasting avenue to OA for books might be to embed open research & publishing within universities"

Sign up:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Beyond Mandates: Fostering a Culture of Open Access Book Publishing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Attempts to incentivise open access for books have, to date, largely centred around policy interventions that mandate publication in open formats and venues. Today we have OA book policies from…

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Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social · Mar 5

Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland & Teesside Universities invite you to their Open Research Week - March 24th-28th.

Events are via TEAMS. Please share widely with all your networks! @dulib.bsky.social

librarytalksunderland.libcal.com/calendar/res...

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GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Feb 25

Don't forget - there's still time to enter this year's GW4 Open Research Prize for your chance to win a £250 voucher.

Prizes will be awarded to the top entry across three categories - widening reach, improving quality and the poster prize.

Enter by 28 Feb: https://buff.ly/4dXBHM3

GW4 Open Research Prize - GW4

GW4 announces the launch of the GW4 Open Research Prize for 2024/25, delivered in partnership with the University of Bath Library Services and the GW4 Libraries.

gw4.ac.uk

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GW4 Alliance @gw4alliance.bsky.social · Feb 25

GW4 Open Research Week 2025! 🌍

Join #GW4 from 31 March – 4 April 2025 for a week of discussions & interactive sessions on Open Research: Open Culture.

Explore how openness enhances research integrity, collaboration, and impact.

📅 Open to GW4 & beyond!

🔗 Full details: https://buff.ly/411fUyN

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